The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24
THE London police report the discovery
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THE London police report the discovery
of jubilee dynamite plot.
on the 18th the jury in the Sharpe
bribery trial at New York, was complet-
ed. Mr. Sharpe was committed to the
custody of the sheriff, but was permitted
to go to his home under guard of deputy.
Twenty-one talesman were summoned
before a jury was secured.
On the 18th the members of the New
York Press Association and their ladies,
who went to Boston on the occasion of
their annual excursion, visited, in CON-
pany with the local editors of Cam
bridge the principal objects Of interest
in the city.
OK the 18th the White Star Line steam
er, Brittanic, which was in collision with
the Celtic of the same line, sailed for
Liverpool Her officers were the same as
when the disaster occurred.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
heard the complaint on the 10Th of the
Chicago & Alton against the Pennsyl-
vania Company.
TIE backbone of the great coke strike
in Pennsylvania was broken on the 10th
by the Hungarian strikers at the Sterling e
and Jimtown works of Schoonmaker &
Co. returning to work at the old wages.
THE Washington Manufacturing Com
pany at Philadelphia, cotton and W ool en-
goods, has suspended payment. Liabili-
ties, $780, 600; assets, 81, 386, IA. The sus-
pension is attributed to loss of confidence
consequent upon recent failures.
TIE influx of visitors to London to par
ticipate in the jubilee festivities has
already exceeded the most extravagant
estimates, and the foods of arrivals cen
tinue unabated. The hotels have long
since ceased to receive guests, and the
lodging houses are filled to overfowing
THE Canadian tug International 'coaled
up" at Cleveland, o., on the 18th, and was
about to leave port when she was seized
by the authorities at the instance of w.
J. Murphy, of Detroit, who has a claim Of
S13, 900 against the owner of the tug.
ADvIoEs from Burmah state that the
Dacoits are unusually active and trouble
some. They have committed a number of
outrages. A band Of these marauders
entered the house of policeman at Dhat.
tan and butchered the entire family
TIE drift of debate in the French Cham
Der of Deputies on the 10th, indicates that
no money will be spsnt yet awhile on the
schemes to make Paris a seaport or to
connect the Atlantic ocean and the Medi-
terranean sea by a canal.
r. E. LEE Camp Confederate Veterans
arrived in Boston on the 10Th. They were
the guests of Post No. Is, @. A. r. They
were met at Fall River by delegation,
and on their arrival in Boston a pro.
cessiou was formed consist g Of the First
Regiment Infantry, the National Lancers,
Post No. 2, G. A. R., and Post No. 15 G..
A. r. The boys in gray received an ova-
tion.
ADvICEs from India say 500 men Of the
garrison at Herat mutinied on the 9th
inst. A short, sharp fight ensued, in which
thirty loyal and fifty rebel troops were
killed. The mutneers fed, but most OF
them were captured. The leaders of the
revolt were sent to Cabul.
IF the dispatches from plac es along the
Cape Breton coast can be relied upon,
half the American mackerel fleet are in
imminent danger of being captured.
COLORADO has partially raised the quar-
antine against Missouri cattle.
A SOLDIERS and sailors monument was
dedicated at New Haven, Conn, on the
18th.
SAMUEL MEYERS, superintendent of the
Miami County Qnd.) asylum for the poor,
is under arrest for brutality.
The Illinois Railroad and Warehouse
Commission has made decision, reduc-
ing freight rates on coal from thirteen to
forty per cent.
THE German Government is alarmed at
the rapid spread of socialism throughout
the empire and is taking steps to check it.
The Winnipeg (Man.) Free Press warns
the Canadian Government at Ottawa that
if the present policy is purs ued toward
ever knew Will be the result.
The Mormons at Salt Lake City have
issued call for a constitutional conven-
tion to meet on June 30 for the purpose OF
arranging to apply for Statehood.
THE arrival of two hundred American
lied Czechs, at Prague, Bohemia, who
have returned to the fatherland, has been
celebrated with the greatest enthusiasm
and rejoicing. A large reception was
held on the nth in their honor.
THE Andover (Mass.) board of visitors
and the AndOver Theological seminary on
the 18th voted to dis pense with the serv.
ices of President e. e. Smith and Prof,
Woodruff as the outcome of the recent
trials for heresy.
JOHN W. SMITH, a white man, and lead
er of gang of desperadoes, was hanged
in Heard County, Ga, on the 18th, for the
murder of Bonner Barker, a former con-
federate.